Quote Originally Posted by Charlet_2007 View Post
no this is is the way i think about it.. it's like playing god.. these 2 snakes would never in a million years come in contact with each other in the wild.. so who's for us just to look at the both of them and say oh wow let do this to get this it's just plain WRONG in my opinion..
Okay... I see why you are so upset, but honestly... there is nothing, absolutely NOTHING, natural about us keeping snakes period. We play god to our snakes and ALL of our pets, so the "playing god" tactic with hybrids, is bogus. I have heard that argument too many times... and it's time I spoke my two cents about it. If youre gonna go for that route....Who's for us to keep snakes period?

We tell our snakes what theyre gonna eat, when theyre gonna eat it, what kind of climate they will live in, what they get to hide in, what kind of stuff they get to crawl around on, when they are gonna mate, who they get to mate with, how many times, where they get to lay their eggs, how big of a water source they have available, where their heat comes from and then on top of all that, we harass them constantly by picking them up and playing with them. There is nothing naturual at all about us keeping snakes in glass boxes and writng their life stories for them. We take an animal that has evolved to survive less than optimal conditions... and we give them optimal conditions... which is really not natural for the snake at all. There is no one to wipe debris from their food in the wild, no one to remove that stuck shed, no one to move them somewhere dry when their entire habitat is soaking wet. There is no one to protect them from the hungry claws of a hawk or the jaws of another snake. There is no one to help them, no one but themselves, but they are still doing fine. By giving them optimal conditions... we are essentially mimicing snake utopia. That, by far, is ten times more playing god than simply allowing two snakes of different species, who are perfectly willing, and able, to breed. Sure, in a sense, it is playing god, but you are playing god the moment you choose to own any animal. And that is not an opinion, but pure, raw, fact, like it or not.

I understand that not everyone chooses to like hybrids, and those of us who do, will like them regardless of the opposing people trying to impose their ways upon us.

Look at it from this point of view.... how many people out there do not agree with us keeping snakes, how many times have you felt attacked when someone called you a horrible person for feeding a cutsie wootsie mouse to a snake? In the end... it all comes down to what you personally can handle, and what you can't. People who like rodents a whole lot... don't keep snakes, because in their eyes, it is wrong. But we do it, we love it, we embrace it and we share the love with one another. And we do not allow the masses to sway us. People within that group of snake keepers, who like hybrids, keep them. And yet, there are people in our own trade who continue to criticize one another, and put others down for something that they simply do not agree with and have opinionated themselves against, and are trying to press that opinion upon those that do not agree with how they feel.

Basically, what I am getting at, is that I think it's totally silly and even hypocritical, for snake keepers to try and impose their feelings and beliefs on others, and yet do not realize that they are doing to other people exactly what the non-snake keepers do to them!